Flynn just resigned!! AP confirms.

[herding cats]

Per CNN.

Breaking banner on CNN. They're reading his resignation letter live now. He's gone.

http://www.cnn.com/


AP Politics? @AP_Politics
BREAKING: National security adviser Michael Flynn has resigned.
10:06 PM · Feb 13, 2017

https://mobile.twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/831353809020526596

Michael Flynn resigns: Trump's national security adviser quits over Russia links – live

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2017/feb/14/flynn-resigns-donald-trump-national-security-adviser-russia-links-live

Keith Kellog acting NSA at the moment. Petraeus to "come in tomorrow" reason unclear.

[Grassy Knoll]

1. WHAAAT?

[herding cats]

4. They're all floored, too.

He's out!

[apcalc]

2. Bet he was " encouraged".

[herding cats]

61. He fell on the sword.

For the higher ups.

[StarryNite]

73. Exactly!

He took one for the team. So many, many more to go!

[Warpy]

3. If true, that's sooner than I expected

Either the staff managed to convince him to be the sacrificial lamb/agent or he realizes if he stays, he'll sink the lot of them. Or he just wants out of the spotlight to do his thing in the dark corners.

Interesting.

[herding cats]

6. They're pretty sure, it's true

[doc03]

5. One traitor down nt

[herding cats]

48. Many more to go.

At least if justice prevails.

[doc03]

50. The Trumpsters I know will still claim it is fake news nt

[herding cats]

55. I expect that, but I also expect a push for investigations.

Which I also expect to be met with a wall of resistance by the GOP. Luckily the press isn't as sympathetic anymore. They really messed up alienating the press, IMO.

[StarryNite]

75. Yup

I know 'them' too. They have swallowed the "orange" Kool Aid.

[Kimchijeon]

51. Yeah, let's keep this trend going

[hay rick]

7. He's out like Flynn. nt

[herding cats]

8. Lol!

[leftstreet]

9. heh

[MissB]

58. Bwahahaha

perfectly stated.

[StarryNite]

76. HaHa!!!

Love it!!!

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

10. Lock him up! Lock him up!

Seeing as he actually did something that warrants being tossed in the pokey.

[roamer65]

11. It's not going to stop with Flynn's resignation.

What did Dump know and when did he know it?

[herding cats]

15. Maybe he did take that money from the Russian government in 2015?

Something pushed this over the edge.

[roamer65]

19. Yep. Something is quite deep here.

Starting to have a very Nixonian feel to it.

[herding cats]

59. I agree.

I doubt this is the last resignation we're going to see here. Let's just hope it goes all the way to the top!

[forgotmylogin]

47. They think they're so slick.

"Watch this, it'll be so quick and nobody will be the wiser!"

[Hekate]

12. Whoops!

Bye Felicia!

[herding cats]

17. Exactly!

[Grassy Knoll]

13. KA FUCKIN BOOM

[Blaukraut]

14. Damn. That'll pretty much end any deeper inquiries into this mess

[herding cats]

21. The army is still investigating him, right?

Wouldn't that, if true, help bring more light on this issue?

[Blaukraut]

29. Yes, they are. Let's hope they do their due diligence!

There is no way Trump wasn't involved.

[herding cats]

32. I agree 100%

Trump is just as deeply involved in Russia.

[oasis]

16. We're not through with his ass yet. Congressional hearings ahead.

[ProudLib72]

18. Come on tRumpy

Quit your stalling. Time for you to resign, too!

[herding cats]

22. That's the breaking news I want!

[X_Digger]

20. What did Herr Twitler know, and when did he know it? n/t

[nolabear]

23. History, kids. We're living it.

Damn.

[herding cats]

27. This isn't the exact way I'd wanted to experience making history, but I agree. nt

[Grammy23]

34. My thoughts exactly.

I remember during Watergate being glued to my TV set watching the hearings. I was in my 20s but I had the nagging feeling that history was playing out in front of us. Pay attention. This has the same feel and hopefully the same outcome. Buh-bye, Trumpolini.

Hopefully, this will be the first domino to fall.

[csziggy]

74. Deja vu - it feels like 1972-73 all over again! nt

[struggle4progress]

24. .

[Freethinker65]

25. Bet he disappears

[herding cats]

26. Back to Russia?

[lillypaddle]

28. One down

and a bunch more to go.

[tavernier]

30. Needs to spend more time with family.

Ya mon.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

42. Especially his son

They're going out for pizza.

[fishwax]

31. let this be the start of many resignations to come

[Equinox Moon]

33. Okay, but we all realize this "protects" pence and trump.

[LeftInTX]

35. I know

But Flynn is a bitter person...who likes to talk...

[herding cats]

37. Oh, good point!

He may not go peacefully.

[Freethinker65]

40. He will be pardoned or silenced or "disappeared"

[mobeau69]

69. Once the squeezing of Flynn begins

his lawyers will tell him to cut a deal and start singing.

[herding cats]

36. And Trump.

I'm not happy, but hope this doesn't go away.

[Freethinker65]

38. Nope. They all knew. As did Ryan, Bannon, Tillerson, etc.

[Equinox Moon]

67. Yes, they all knew. But a fall-guy keeps the corrupt-treason wheels turning.

[tblue37]

60. For now. nt

[uponit7771]

80. +1

[AgadorSparticus]

39. Not good enough. He needs to be prosecuted.

[herding cats]

44. Yes, he does.

We need to not let this drop off the radar.

[procon]

41. With Flynn out, the bullseye is now squarely centered on Trump.

The crucial question, 'What did he know, and when did he know it?', is still unanswered.

[herding cats]

45. I agree, and hope it sheds light on this issue more.

This helps invalidate trump and validates our suspicions.

[jeanmarc]

54. No, expose the piss tapes NT

[mvd]

43. Trump is up to his eyeballs in this

Pence also. I hope it snowballs until they resign. Then we will deal with Ryan being weakened by all of this.

[herding cats]

46. What did Trump know, and when did he know it?

That's what they're saying on CNN right now.

This has shades of Watergate.

[mvd]

49. Definitely!

We all suspected things were rotten with this administration and Russia from the start. Things are moving even faster than I hoped.

[herding cats]

52. This is moving so fast Elon Musk is jealous!

[jeanmarc]

53. This is a small battle won in a major war

Trump has gone to war with the spy/security agencies and they are returning fire in a bigly response.

The intelligence agencies have no reason to hold their fire now. It's war!

[taught_me_patience]

56. He's taking the bullet for Trump

And will probably be rewarded handsomely by Trump's Russian pals.

[herding cats]

57. Exactly right.

Which goes against his personality. Which is interesting.

[Tatiana]

62. The spooks are getting closer....

Congress may be drawing up articles of impeachment before the midterms, at this rate.

I really hope a couple of patriots leak enough information to the press to push things along.

The Republic won't survive a year under these traitors. They have to go. All of them!

[herding cats]

63. I have very little faith in our current congress.

But, we shall see.

[Tatiana]

64. The only thing I have faith in is their ability for self-preservation.

They are so craven that they won't fall on their own swords. They'll sell him out in order to protect their own seats.

That's what I'm counting on.

[herding cats]

66. I believe they'll do that at some point.

Right now they're trying to jam their agenda down our throats, but next year that should shift to their own political careers.

[True Dough]

65. Drumpf's words upon naming Flynn national security adviser back in November...

“I am pleased that Lieutenant General Michael Flynn will be by my side as we work to defeat radical Islamic terrorism, navigate geopolitical challenges and keep Americans safe at home and abroad,” Trump said in a statement. “General Flynn is one of the country’s foremost experts on military and intelligence matters and he will be an invaluable asset to me and my administration.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/michael-flynn-national-security-adviser-231591

What a visionary!!!

[UTUSN]

68. 1 down!1 *ON* to the top!1

[herding cats]

71. Please let this be act 1 in a Shakespearean tragedy.

Please?

[Cryptoad]

70. alt2b sum sorts legal charges filed,,,,,nt

[progree]

72. Drat, I was hoping this would go on for a few months at least - keep Russia-Trump in the news (nt)

[herding cats]

79. This administration is on speed.

In more ways than one.

[scscholar]

77. That is great, but Trump's Oroville disaster is more important...

since already 200,000 people had to flee from Trump's infrastructure disaster.

[herding cats]

78. You're preaching to the choir on that one.

That's an issue near and dear to my heart that I've explore here in depth.

[drray23]

81. congress needs to get him in an hearing where he should be forced to testify under oath.

That should force him to spill the beans on who else knew. It is very likely the president and vice-president were in on it.

[DonCoquixote]

82. yes this is great news

but please, please let us not lose focus. We know damn well that this is only the first of many, many scandals that need to be dragged out into the light. We also do not want to give the enemy, and yes I do call them the enemy now a chance to throw up some distraction so that the news media will find some of very easy fix to focus on and allow Flynn to live some nice quiet existence in the United Arab Emirates. You know that is the goal of Trump, to get Flynn out of the way so that he can hide his shame and that the Congress will not want a Trump scandal to detract from things like cutting Social Security and Medicare.

We need to stay focused, we need to be relentless. We need to keep pursuing this as far as it will go, and if that means that we actually find out that folks like the Mitch McConnell's, Paul Ryan's, James Comeys and all hell yes if Mike pence and Donald Trump knew anything about what was going on, that they get prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Allow me to also add without apology that if there is a nice red Russian wound in the Republican Party, that we be ruthless about exploiting it. They are already popping champagne over the Supreme Court, we need to do the maximum amount of damage to the Republicans possible, without mercy, without apology.

[herding cats]

83. It's just the beginning of the process.

No matter what we all try and read into this, it's a huge loss for Russia. Which is, under our current administration, a win for the US.

Now we need to be laser focused on who knew what, and when they knew it. We need unbiased independent investigations. Which will be a hard battle.

I believe there's real issues here, not partisan imagined ones, which justice demands be uncovered and exposed to salvage our democracy.